If pressed to assign a theme to the past 12 months, I would probably opt for this: Managing Risk and Reducing Costs. It would not be exaggerating to say that every conference, report, meeting and sales discussion I've had since October 2008 has touched on this theme.

Both managing risk and reducing costs
depend, fundamentally, on reliable, comprehensive information. Thus,
in my optimistic moods, I feel that information practitioners are
positioned at the heart of business success. (In less optimistic
moods? Well, that's when I remind colleagues that FreePint's gap
subscription programme makes our premium publications
available to information professionals seeking their next
opportunity.)

FreePint is in the midst of two
research
projects that speak to this theme. First, in the arena
of managing risk, we have our Copyright
Practices Research Project. Copyright management has
been a hot topic for our subscribers for some time. Recently, due in
part to high profile legal cases, copyright compliance has moved up
the corporate agenda.

Phase 1 of this project is now
underway, with a survey designed to capture information on policies
and priorities among those responsible for copyright compliance. You
can read
more about this project, and we
invite you to participate. Your responses are
anonymous, and you'll get a copy of the report. (Special thanks to
project sponsors: Dialog, Dow Jones and the Financial Times.)

Reducing costs was reiterated as a
critical theme in the recently published VIP
Report on Economic Impact. We're also seeing it
emerge in the still-ongoing VIP
Survey on News Needs and Preferences. Respondents so
far continue to report that premium services for news content still
beat out free offerings for functions, advanced searching, and
reliability; at the same time, respondents report that their
organisations are using more free resources for news coverage, and
anticipate increasing their use of free in the coming 12 months.

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I think the problem here is the way in which the work has been used. Has the excerpt been cited and acknowledged properly? There is a clause of "fair use" in copyright legislation, but I don't think in this instance it is covered. It generally applies to research and educational purposes. Here is where the anomaly lies. I'd get permission asap, if I were the user of the works of another in this instance.
J

Hi Sheila,
You didn't specify any date line or region, but if you look at www.paperonweb.com, they could fulfill your needs if you drop them a line. Failing that, there's loads of pulp and paper associations, depending on the region you want data for. Earthtrends may be useful - here http://earthtrends.wri.org/
Natural Resources Canada is another http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/industrial/technical-info/benchmarking/pulp-paper/discussion.cfm?attr=24 - beware - read their copyright policy and get permission before use. I've used these resources before, but my query was somewhat different to yours.
Good Luck. J

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FreePint has launched the first phase of a 2-part research project on copyright compliance. Information managers responsible for copyright within their organisations, departments or locations are encouraged to complete the first survey: http://digbig.com/5bamfn
Read the press release about the project: http://web.freepint.com/go/about/press/4310
All survey responses will be fully anonymous. Respondents will receive a copy of the report, including the results of the survey, feature stories and related resources on copyright.
-Robin
Robin Neidorf
General Manager, FreePint
Thanks to this project's sponsors for their support: Dialog, Dow Jones and the Financial Times.

After having consulted Lexis, Westlaw, and local colleagues, I'm at a bit of a loss, and am wondering if you can help. Here in the U.S., we have online services called Accurint and ATXP Choicepoint (both with Lexis now, I believe) which provide background info (e.g. assets, current and past addresses, bankruptcies, etc.) on American citizens. My question is: Does a comparable service exist for British citizens?
Thanks!
Larry

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